Image Saqqara Step Pyramid 6773EG07JHP by Jim Henderson

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This gallery contains pictures of the two main sites usually visited together on a day trip south of Cairo - Saqqara with the famous Step Pyramid, a huge necropolis with many tombs and other pyramids and Memphis, the ancient capital of Egypt now will an open air museum with the alabaster sphinx and the huge partial statue of Ramasses 11.
Saqqara Step Pyramid 6773EG07JHP 
 Step Pyramid Saqqara King Djoser Palm Trees Roadside Farming Vegetable Fields stands out from the distant desert escarpment looking across the fertile agricultural land bordering the main road south from Cairo. 
 Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Cairo, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, Step Pyramid, necropolis, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, reeds palm trees, fields, agriculture, vegetables, fertile
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Saqqara & Memphis
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Saqqara Step Pyramid 6773EG07JHP
Upload Date: 2007-10-27 08:12:28
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Step Pyramid Saqqara King Djoser Palm Trees Roadside Farming Vegetable

Fields stands out from the distant desert escarpment looking across the fertile agricultural land bordering the main road south from Cairo.
Keywords: Egypt, Egyptian, Cairo, Saqqarah, Saqqara, Memphis, Bedrashein, Step Pyramid, necropolis, landscape, digital, recent, history, antiquity, Egyptology, archaeology, ancient, history, desert, sand, reeds palm trees, fields, agriculture, vegetables, fertile